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Foreword

Budget Paper No. 2, Budget Measures 2009‑10 ensures that the Budget Papers provide comprehensive information on all Government decisions that involve changes to its revenue, expense and investing activities since the February 2009 Updated Economic and Fiscal Outlook.

Budget Paper No. 2 comprises three parts:

Part 1: Revenue Measures
Part 2: Expense Measures
Part 3: Capital Measures

Revenue measures are defined as those measures that affect taxation or non-taxation revenues (on a Government Finance Statistics basis).

Expense measures are defined as those measures that affect expenses (on a Government Finance Statistics basis).

Capital measures are defined as those measures that affect net capital investment, defined as the change in non-financial assets. Capital measures that fall outside of this definition, such as equity injections or loans used for purposes other than investment in non-financial assets, are shown as having a zero impact on the fiscal balance.

Notes

(a) The following definitions are used in this Budget Paper:

'real' means adjusted for the effect of inflation;
real growth in expenses is measured by the Consumer Price Index;
the Budget year refers to 2009‑10, while the forward years refer to 2010‑11, 2011‑12 and 2012‑13; and
one billion is equal to one thousand million.

(b) Figures in tables and generally in the text have been rounded. Discrepancies in tables between totals and sums of components are due to rounding.

(d) The following notations are used:

*: The nature of this measure is such that a reliable estimate cannot be provided.
COAG: Council of Australian Governments
NEC/nec: not elsewhere classified
AEST: Australian Eastern Standard Time
-: nil
..: not zero, but rounded to zero
na: not available
nfp: not for publication
$m: $ million

(e) The Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory are referred to as 'the Territories'. References to the 'States' or 'each State' include the Territories. The following abbreviations are used for the names of the States, where appropriate:

NSW: New South Wales
VIC: Victoria
QLD: Queensland
WA: Western Australia
SA: South Australia
TAS: Tasmania
ACT: Australian Capital Territory
NT: Northern Territory

(f) In this paper the term Commonwealth refers to the Commonwealth of Australia. The term is used when referring to the legal entity of the Commonwealth of Australia.

The term Australian Government is used when referring to the Government and the decisions and activities made by the Government on behalf of the Commonwealth of Australia.

Budget Paper No. 2, Budget Measures 2009‑10 is one of a series of Budget Papers that provides information to supplement the Budget Speech. A full list of the series is printed on the inside cover of this paper.

Table of measures by portfolio

Part 1: Revenue Measures

Cross Portfolio

Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme — revised implementation

Finance and Deregulation

Medibank Private Limited — conversion to a 'for profit' government business enterprise

Immigration and Citizenship

Citizenship and Resident Return visas — increased application fees
Visa Application Charge — increase

Treasury

Amendments to the assistance in collection provisions
Amendments to the Australian Business Register
Annual indexation of ASIC fees
Capital gains tax — extension of capital loss roll‑over for complying superannuation fund mergers
Capital gains tax — further amendments to the small business concessions
Capital gains tax — limited roll‑over for fixed trusts
Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme — GST treatment of units
Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme — income tax treatment of units (technical changes)
Changing the taxation definition of beer and wine
Entrepreneurs' tax offset — defer the application of the income test
Financial Claims Scheme — amendments to taxation laws
Fringe benefits tax — exemption for donations to deductible gift recipients
GST — Government response to Board of Taxation report: GST administration
GST — representatives of incapacitated entities
GST and cross‑border transport supplies
Guarantee of state and territory borrowing
Improving fairness and integrity in the tax system — better targeting the concessions for Employee Share Schemes
Improving fairness and integrity in the tax system — better targeting the income tax exemption for employment income earned by Australians working overseas
Improving fairness and integrity in the tax system — extending the tax file number withholding arrangements to closely held trusts
Improving fairness and integrity in the tax system — tightening access to non‑commercial business losses
Improving fairness and integrity in the tax system — tightening the non‑commercial loan rules
Indirect Tax Concession Scheme — diplomatic and consular concessions
International tax — Australia — Isle of Man taxation agreement
International tax — changes to the thin capitalisation regime for approved authorised deposit taking institutions
International tax — review of the foreign source income anti‑tax‑deferral (attribution) regimes
Life insurance — immediate annuity business
Managed investment trusts — election to allow capital gains tax to be the primary code for disposals of shares, units and real property
Off‑market share buy‑backs — implementing the Board of Taxation recommendations
Pay As You Go (PAYG) Instalments — cash flow relief for small business
Personal Income Tax — exemption of income recovery subsidy payments for Australian disasters
Personal Income Tax — increasing the Medicare levy low‑income thresholds
Petroleum resource rent tax — extension of the offshore exploration incentive
Philanthropy — additional prescribed private funds
Philanthropy — Australian disaster relief funds
Philanthropy — reforming the 'in Australia' requirements that apply to tax exempt entities
Philanthropy — triennial review of the deductible gift recipient registers
Philanthropy — updating the list of deductible gift recipients
Repeal of certain unlimited amendment periods in the income tax laws
Small Business and General Business Tax Break — additional assistance to small business and enhancements
Special Disability Trusts — changes to the taxation of unexpended income and the capital gains tax main residence exemption
Superannuation — account‑based pensions — drawdown relief for retirees for 2008‑09
Superannuation — account‑based pensions — further drawdown relief for retirees
Superannuation — amendments to the general unclaimed money regime and other amendments resulting from the temporary residents' superannuation measure
Superannuation — contributing to sustainable retirement income reform by reducing the concessional contributions caps
Superannuation — payment of small and insoluble lost accounts to unclaimed monies
Superannuation — trans‑Tasman retirement savings portability scheme
Tax exemption for certain grants to small businesses and primary producers affected by the Victorian bushfires
Uniform capital allowance regime — technical changes

Part 2: Expense Measures

Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry

Avian influenza border control — continuation
Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry — further efficiency
Drought assistance — Exceptional Circumstances assistance for primary producers
Drought assistance — Exceptional Circumstances assistance for small businesses — extension
Drought assistance — interim income support for primary producers
Drought assistance — interim income support for small businesses
Drought assistance — professional advice and planning
Drought assistance — re‑establishment assistance — continuation
Drought assistance — transitional income support — extension
International mail program — continuation
Land and Water Australia — cessation of funding
Live Animal Trade Welfare Partnership
Quarantine border security — continuation
Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation — further efficiency
Securing the Future: protecting our industries from biological, chemical and physical risks program — continuation
Small block irrigators — exit grant package — expansion

Attorney‑General's

Africa — law and justice frameworks — Australian assistance
Air Security Officer program — continuation
Australian Federal Police — contribution to the United Nations Mission in Sudan
Australian Federal Police — increase Australia's law enforcement contribution to Pakistan
Australian Federal Police — logistics and security arrangements for the deployment in Afghanistan — further efficiency
Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre — efficiencies in reporting entity compliance
Automated border processing (SmartGate) — maintenance
Aviation security — Airport Police Commanders
Aviation security — Airport Uniform Police supplementary funding
Aviation security — Joint Airport Investigation Teams
Aviation security — Unified Policing Model — lease and operating costs for accommodation
Border protection — combating people smuggling — communications campaign
Border protection — combating people smuggling — enhancing Australian Federal Police and regional capability
Border protection — combating people smuggling — increased aerial surveillance of Australia's northern waters
Border protection — combating people smuggling — increased maritime response capability
Border protection — combating people smuggling — international engagement to prevent and disrupt maritime people smuggling
Border protection — combating people smuggling — maritime surveillance — extension of contract for ACV Triton
Border protection — combating people smuggling — post‑interdiction management of illegal entry vessels
Border protection — combating people smuggling — specialist prosecution unit
Border protection — combating people smuggling — strengthening regional people smuggling laws and prosecutions
China — Australian Customs and Border Protection Service — continuation
Cole Inquiry Taskforce — continuation of funding
Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions — efficiencies from in‑house legal services
Commonwealth Law Ministers Meeting 2011 — funding
Continuity of Government — continuation of funding
Counter‑terrorism — regional legal assistance
Critical Infrastructure Protection program — continuation
Customs — risk‑based approach to air cargo inspections
Customs — risk‑based approach to first port boarding inspections
Customs — risk‑based approach to sea cargo inspections
Diplomatic Guarding program — continuation of funding
Disaster Resilience — continuation and expansion of support for aerial firefighting
Disaster Resilience — National Emergency Warning System
Disaster Resilience Australia Package
Enhanced crisis coordination facilities
E‑Security Review
Family Court of Australia — reduction in the number of judicial officers
Federal Court of Australia — reduction in the number of judicial officers
Federal Magistrates Court — savings from not appointing two federal magistrates
Fighting terrorism at its source
High Court of Australia — additional resourcing
Illegal foreign fishing in northern waters — continuation of funding for on‑land support services
Indian Ocean Territories Grants — streamlined grants program
Insolvency and Trustee Service Australia — maintaining service standards
International counter‑terrorism — South‑East Asia border security program
Jakarta Centre for Law Enforcement Cooperation — continuation
Maritime surveillance — Bay class vessel replacement project
Maritime surveillance — Southern Ocean Maritime Patrol and Response Program
National Native Title Tribunal — increased efficiencies
National security public information campaign — continuation
Office of Parliamentary Counsel — additional resourcing
Personal Property Security Reform — additional resourcing
Police Aviation Liaison Officers — continuation of funding
Regional Rapid Deployment Teams — continuation of funding
Respondent funding for Native Title claims — increased efficiencies
Restructure of the Federal Courts
Royal Commission into the February 2009 Victorian Bushfires
Surge Capacity Phase Two — continuation of funding
Wireless Priority Service System

Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy

Australian Broadband Guarantee — reduction in funding
Australian Broadcasting Corporation — additional funding
Australian Broadcasting Corporation — base funding
Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Special Broadcasting Service Corporation — cessation of analog television simulcasting
Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Special Broadcasting Service Corporation — distribution and transmission efficiencies
Australian Communications and Media Authority — operational efficiencies
Australian Communications Consumer Action Network — additional support
Community broadcasting National Training Program — continuation
Digital dividend — technical planning and restacking
Digital Television Switchover — regional South Australia, Victoria and Queensland
Do Not Call Register — eligibility extension
National Broadband Network — implementation and establishment
National ICT Australia — funding extension
National Transmission Network — Residual Funding Pool — return of uncommitted funding
Regional Telecommunications Review Response — Digital Regions Initiative
Regional Telecommunications Review Response — enhanced Satellite Phone Subsidy Scheme
Regional Telecommunications Review Response — Indigenous Communications Program
Rural and Regional National Broadband Network Initiative — ABC regional broadband hubs
Rural and Regional National Broadband Network Initiative — enhanced Digital Regions Initiative
Rural and Regional National Broadband Network Initiative — rural NBN coordinators
Special Broadcasting Service Corporation — additional funding
Special Broadcasting Service Corporation — base funding
Television blackspots — alternative technical solutions
Television towers — improved coverage

Climate Change

Australian Carbon Trust — establishment
Australian Climate Change Science Program — continuation of funding
Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme — Climate Change Action Fund — additional funding and rephasing
Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme — Global Recession Buffer
Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme — National Carbon Accounting Toolbox
Department of Climate Change — base departmental funding
Greenhouse Action in Regional Australia — termination
International negotiations on climate change — continuation of funding

Cross Portfolio

Nation Building and Jobs Plan — implementation costs

Defence

Afghan National Army Trust Fund — contribution
Australian Defence Force Health Care Trial — expansion
Australian Defence Force systems integration capabilities — improvements
Australia‑United States enhanced defence cooperation — humanitarian assistance and disaster relief
Coastal surveillance — revised operational structure
Defence savings in the forward estimates period
Defence White Paper — new funding model
Global supply chain opportunities
Global terrorism — enhancing Australia's commitment to Afghanistan
Iraq — Australian Defence Force embedded personnel commitment in Iraq — cessation
Iraq — Australian Defence Force security detachment — funding
Land operations in complex environments — improved capacity
Middle East Area of Operations — command and control enhancements
Military superannuation schemes — reduced number of medical reviews
Navy workforce — increased capabilty
Priority Industry Capability Centres of Excellence
Retention of accommodation on deployment
Superannuation contributions for operations — related allowances
Timor‑Leste — continued funding to help maintain stability

Education, Employment and Workplace Relations

Alternative Dispute Resolution Assistance Scheme — discontinuation
An Innovation and Higher Education System for the 21st Century — Australian Universities Quality Agency — redirection of funding
An Innovation and Higher Education System for the 21st Century — conditional funding and revised indexation arrangements
An Innovation and Higher Education System for the 21st Century — demand‑driven funding for higher education
An Innovation and Higher Education System for the 21st Century — Education Investment Fund — Future Rounds
An Innovation and Higher Education System for the 21st Century — Education Investment Fund — Round 2
An Innovation and Higher Education System for the 21st Century — funding for institutional performance targets
An Innovation and Higher Education System for the 21st Century — Higher Education Equity Support Program — redirect funding
An Innovation and Higher Education System for the 21st Century — Higher Education Loan Program (HELP) repayment reduction for education and nursing graduates
An Innovation and Higher Education System for the 21st Century — increase in the maximum annual student contribution amount for education and nursing
An Innovation and Higher Education System for the 21st Century — Learning and Teaching Performance Fund — redirect funding
An Innovation and Higher Education System for the 21st Century — national quality and regulatory agency for higher education — establishment
An Innovation and Higher Education System for the 21st Century — redirect funds to establish the Structural Adjustment Fund
An Innovation and Higher Education System for the 21st Century — remove the loan fee on OS‑HELP loans
An Innovation and Higher Education System for the 21st Century — Structural Adjustment Fund
An Innovation and Higher Education System for the 21st Century — Student Income Support — abolition of Commonwealth Education Costs Scholarships and Commonwealth Accommodation Scholarships programs
An Innovation and Higher Education System for the 21st Century — Student Income Support — abolition of Commonwealth Scholarships for Associate Degrees program
An Innovation and Higher Education System for the 21st Century — Student Income Support — administrative costs
An Innovation and Higher Education System for the 21st Century — Student Income Support — increase Youth Allowance Parental Income Test threshold
An Innovation and Higher Education System for the 21st Century — Student Income Support — Masters by coursework
An Innovation and Higher Education System for the 21st Century — Student Income Support — means test exemption for equity and merit‑based scholarships
An Innovation and Higher Education System for the 21st Century — Student Income Support — reduction in the age of independence
An Innovation and Higher Education System for the 21st Century — Student Income Support — relax personal income test
An Innovation and Higher Education System for the 21st Century — Student Income Support — Relocation Scholarship
An Innovation and Higher Education System for the 21st Century — Student Income Support — Student Start‑Up Scholarship
An Innovation and Higher Education System for the 21st Century — Student Income Support — Youth Allowance workforce participation criteria
An Innovation and Higher Education System for the 21st Century — support to increase participation of students from low socio‑economic status backgrounds
An Innovation and Higher Education System for the 21st Century — Workplace Productivity Program
Business‑School Connections Roundtable
Child Care Cost Estimator — improvement
Council of Australian Governments — Skills Recognition Taskforce
Disability Employment Services — new delivery model
Drought Assistance — Assistance for Isolated Children Scheme — extension
Drought Assistance — schools — extension
Expansion of income contingent loans to state‑subsidised students in vocational education and training
Expansion of VET FEE‑HELP for full‑fee students
Fair Work Australia — implementation of workplace relations legislation
Fair Work Australia — information and education
Family centred employment pilot project
Golden Gurus — mentoring support to business and community
Income support payments — asset test hardship provisions — modification
Job capacity assessments — additional assessments
Jobs and Training Compact — monitoring and evaluation
Jobs and Training Compact — Building the Basics — Language, Literacy and Numeracy — additional training places and workforce development
Jobs and Training Compact — connecting people with job services
Jobs and Training Compact — early access to employment services for redundant workers
Jobs and Training Compact — improved participation requirements for 15 to 20 year olds
Jobs and Training Compact — improvements to assistance for job seekers
Jobs and Training Compact — information campaign on employment services and jobs
Jobs and Training Compact — Jobs Fund
Jobs and Training Compact — liquid assets waiting period — temporary change
Jobs and Training Compact — Local Employment Coordinators
Jobs and Training Compact — Pathways to Skills: Australian Apprenticeships Access Program — additional places
Jobs and Training Compact — Productivity Places Program — 10,000 additional places
Jobs and Training Compact — Securing Australian Apprenticeships — securing completions through RTOs
Jobs and Training Compact — Securing Australian Apprenticeships Re‑commencements — all employees
Jobs and Training Compact — Training Supplement
Jobs and Training Compact — Youth Attainment and Transitions National Partnership
National Mental Health and Disability Strategy — Disability Support Pension Employment Incentive Pilot
Participation Taskforce Review — more flexible participation requirements for parents
Prime Minister's Australia Asia Endeavour Awards
Quality Teacher Program — National Projects component — abolition
Reform of Australian Apprentices Incentive Funding — extend incentives to employers of custodial apprentices
Reform of Australian apprenticeships incentive funding — increased efficiency
Reform of Australian Apprenticeships Incentives Funding — abolish Apprenticeship Training (Fee) Voucher
Reform of Australian Apprenticeships Incentives Funding — abolish the Increased Opportunities for School‑based New Apprentices in the Trades
Reform of Australian Apprenticeships Incentives Funding — combine three incentive programs into one program — Tools for Your Trade
Reform of Australian Apprenticeships Incentives Funding — extend employer incentives to all Diploma and Advanced Diploma courses
Reform of Australian Apprenticeships Incentives Funding — Increased Opportunities for School‑based New Apprentices in the Trades Program — abolition
Reform of Australian Apprenticeships Incentives Funding — provide support for Mid‑Career Apprentices by extending funding to those aged 25 years and over
Reform of Australian Apprenticeships Incentives Funding — reduce and phase out Fast Track Apprenticeships
Reform of Australian Apprenticeships Incentives Funding — streamlined administration
Skills for the Carbon Challenge
Transitional assistance to employment service providers — Business Adjustment Fund
Unlawful Termination Assistance Scheme — discontinuation
Vocational Education Broadband Network
Youth Development and Support Program — funding reallocation

Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts

Action on Energy Efficiency — termination
Art Indemnity Australia — redirection of funding
Arts Training Organisations — additional contribution
ArtStart — establishment
Australia — Antarctica Airlink — continuation
Australian Government international exhibitions insurance program — establishment
Australia's National and Commonwealth historic built heritage — protection and conservation
Bioremediation and revegetation trials
Books Alive — continuation
Bureau of Meteorology — additional funding
Bureau of Meteorology — Next generation weather forecast and warning system — national roll‑out
Bureau of Meteorology — strategic radar enhancement project — establishment
Coal Mine Methane Reduction Program — termination
Commonwealth Environment Research Facilities Program — reduction in funding
Commonwealth terrestrial reserves — additional funding
Director of National Parks — continued supplementation
Energy Efficiency of Electrical Appliances — termination
Green Loans Program — better targeting
Greenhouse Challenge Plus — termination
Greenhouse Gas Abatement Program — termination
Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning High Efficiency Systems Strategy — contribution
Hot water system phase out — termination
Local Greenhouse Action — termination
Low Emissions Technology and Abatement — termination
Maintaining Australia's presence in Antarctica — additional funding
Melba Foundation — continued support
National collecting institutions touring and outreach program — establishment
National Energy Efficiency Initiative — establishment
National Library of Australia — business case for digitisation of the national collections
National Museum of Australia — accommodation of off‑site collections — business case
National Strategy on Energy Efficiency — Building Code of Australia requirements for commercial buildings — enhancement
National Strategy on Energy Efficiency — commercial building energy efficiency — mandatory disclosure
National Strategy on Energy Efficiency — commercial building rating tools — enhancement
National Strategy on Energy Efficiency — energy efficiency labelling — enhancement
National Strategy on Energy Efficiency — Energy efficiency requirements for residential buildings — enhancement
National Strategy on Energy Efficiency — minimum performance standards for appliances and equipment — expansion
National Strategy on Energy Efficiency — Residential building energy efficiency — mandatory disclosure
Phase‑out of Inefficient Light Bulbs — termination
Reef HQ Aquarium, Townsville — continuation
Small Business and Household Initiative — termination
Small to medium arts organisations — extension of funding
Solar Homes and Communities Plan — additional funding
Strategic National Response — termination
Territory orchestras — extension of funding
Water for the Future — local plans for a future with less water
Water for the Future — national stormwater funding
Water for the Future — reallocation of Driving Reform in the Murray‑Darling Basin funds

Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs

Care determinations — alignment across Family Assistance Office and Child Support Program
Children with a disability — additional outside school hours care
Closing the Gap — APS Indigenous Employment Strategy
Closing the Gap — Business Action Agenda
Closing the Gap — Clearinghouse
Closing the Gap — Community Development Employment Projects Program (CDEP) and the Indigenous Employment Program (IEP) Reform
Closing the Gap — expanding link-up services for the Stolen Generations
Closing the Gap — funding for the Native Title system
Closing the Gap — improving eye and ear health services for Indigenous Australians
Closing the Gap — Indigenous dental services in rural and regional areas
Closing the Gap — Indigenous electoral participation program
Closing the Gap — Indigenous Healing Foundation
Closing the Gap — National Indigenous Violence and Child Abuse Intelligence Task Force
Closing the Gap — Northern Territory — Commonwealth Ombudsman support
Closing the Gap — Northern Territory — community engagement
Closing the Gap — Northern Territory — community stores
Closing the Gap — Northern Territory — coordination and policy advice
Closing the Gap — Northern Territory — creches
Closing the Gap — Northern Territory — early childhood
Closing the Gap — Northern Territory — enhancing education — quality teaching and accelerated literacy
Closing the Gap — Northern Territory — enhancing education — school nutrition
Closing the Gap — Northern Territory — enhancing education — teacher housing
Closing the Gap — Northern Territory — family support package
Closing the Gap — Northern Territory — field operations
Closing the Gap — Northern Territory — income management — additional funding
Closing the Gap — Northern Territory — Indigenous health and related services
Closing the Gap — Northern Territory — language, literacy and numeracy training for Indigenous job seekers
Closing the Gap — Northern Territory — law and order
Closing the Gap — Northern Territory — Local Priorities Fund
Closing the Gap — Northern Territory — playgroups
Closing the Gap — Northern Territory — policing
Closing the Gap — Northern Territory — youth diversion
Closing the Gap — quality assurance for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Medical Services pathology program — enhancement
Closing the Gap — Reconciliation Australia — continuation
Closing the Gap — Sporting Chance Program
Closing the Gap — strengthening Australia's Indigenous visual arts industry — additional funding
Closing the Gap — Torres Strait Major Infrastructure Program
Commonwealth Seniors Health Card — income test
Coordinator General for remote Indigenous services
Disability Parking Scheme — a national approach
Disability Support Pension — better and fairer assessments
Drought assistance — extension of the Family Support Drought Response Teams program
Emergency Relief — assistance related to the Victorian bushfires and Queensland floods
Emergency Relief — innovative projects to help build the financial capacity of people on low incomes
Family Relationships Services Program — transfer of responsibilities to the Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs
Improving School Enrolment and Attendance Trial — continuation
Income management in cases of child neglect and by voluntary choice — continuation of trial
Maternity Immunisation Allowance — alignment of indexation with other family payments
National Companion Card — implementation
National Framework for Protecting Australia's Children — Communities for Children Plus Program — establishment
National Framework for Protecting Australia's Children — National Leadership Project
National Framework for Protecting Australia's Children — Special Child Care Benefit — increasing awareness and access
National Framework for Protecting Australia's Children — Transition to Independent Living Allowance — increase
National Plan to Reduce Violence against Women and their Children — implementation
Paid Parental Leave
Queensland floods — assistance
Reform of family payments — Family Tax Benefit Part A (FTB‑A) — removing the link to pension indexation
Reform of family payments — pause to indexation of upper income thresholds of FTB‑A, FTB‑B and Baby Bonus
Secure and sustainable pensions — close the Pension Bonus Scheme
Secure and sustainable pensions — increase in the Age Pension age
Secure and sustainable pensions — increase to pension payments
Secure and sustainable pensions — new carer supplement
Secure and sustainable pensions — social security agreements with Latvia, the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic
Secure and sustainable pensions — tighten the income test taper
South‑East Queensland storms — assistance
Tuggeranong Office Park — accommodation
Victorian bushfires — assistance

Finance and Deregulation

Australian Electoral Commission — savings measures
Commonwealth Grants Framework
Department of Finance and Deregulation — increased efficiencies
Ministerial and Opposition staff — additional positions
Property management — improved framework
Recruitment advertising — guidelines
West Block refurbishment project — stage one
Whole‑of‑government procurement contracting — Microsoft volume sourcing agreement

Foreign Affairs and Trade

APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC) — hosting an ABAC meeting in 2010 and secretariat support
Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research — redirect funding
Australian Consulate‑General in Nauru — continued funding
Australian Trade Commission — Clean Energy Trade and Investment Strategy
Australian Trade Commission — Export Market Development Grants scheme — additional funding
Australian Trade Commission — reduction in promotional activities
Border protection — additional resourcing to combat people smuggling — international engagement to prevent and disrupt maritime people smuggling
Border protection — combating people smuggling — enhanced intelligence capability
Counter‑proliferation intelligence enhancement
Enhanced diplomacy — advancing national security and protecting Australians abroad — resourcing
Enhanced Pacific engagement
Enhancing Australia's Regional Engagement
Enhancing regional counter‑terrorism effectiveness
Hosting the 35th Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting
International Commission on Nuclear Non‑proliferation and Disarmament — operational costs
International Counter‑Terrorism Capability and Programs
Kabul — new chancery construction project feasibility and planning
Overseas development assistance — Afghanistan and Pakistan Increased Assistance
Overseas development assistance — Debt to Health Swap with Government of Indonesia
Overseas development assistance — Economic Infrastructure
Overseas development assistance — food security through rural development
Overseas development assistance — improving responsiveness and accountability in government
Overseas development assistance — Nauru
Overseas development assistance — performance‑linked aid
Overseas development assistance — Prime Minister's Pacific Australia Awards
Overseas development assistance — Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands — continuation
Pandemic influenza preparedness — maintaining the delivery of Australian Government services overseas
Protecting Australian diplomatic and consular posts overseas — security enhancements
Regional chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear security
Thailand — repatriation of Australian citizens and permanent residents
Trans‑Pacific Partnership Agreement negotiation — Australia's participation
Travellers' Emergency Loans and Consular Emergency Services Schemes
United Nations Security Council — candidacy

Health and Ageing

Aged care viability supplements — increase
Assistive Technology in Community Care program — discontinuation
Australian Better Health Initiative — cease promotional activities for 45 Year Old Health Check
Australian Better Health Initiative — further efficiency
Australian Better Health Initiative — promoting healthy lifestyles — further efficiency
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare — improving access to data and analysis
Australian Red Cross Society — additional funding
Australian Sports Anti‑Doping Authority — continued funding for Australia's anti‑doping framework
Breast cancer treatment — continuation of funding for the Herceptin program
Cancer Australia — improved lung cancer data and treatment guidelines
Continence Aids Payment Scheme — more choice for users
Divisions of General Practice program — new funding formula
e‑Health — electronic clinical information and communication network for north‑west Tasmania
e‑Health programs — further efficiency
Epidermolysis bullosa — national dressing scheme
European training base for Australian athletes — continuation
Fairer income testing in residential aged care — ending the 28‑day income test exemption
Food Standards Australia New Zealand — funding for upgrading computer systems
General practice training — consolidating regional training providers — further efficiency
General practice training — expanding the role of General Practice Education and Training Ltd
General practice training — extension of time for rural placements
Grants for physical activity projects in the community — discontinuation
Health and hospital reform — establishment of the National Institute for Virology
Health and Hospitals Fund — hospital infrastructure and other projects of national significance
Health and Hospitals Fund — national cancer statement
Health and Hospitals Fund — translational research and workforce training
Health Infrastructure Projects in Tasmania
Hearing services — introduction of hearing threshold
Hospital Accountability and Performance Program — continuation
Improving Maternity Services Package
Indigenous access to health care services — further efficiency
Investment in Preventive Health (Environmental Health) program — further efficiency
Leadership in mental health reform — continuation and further efficiency
Magnetic Resonance Imaging — transitional funding for Gippsland and South Eastern NSW mobile unit
Magnetic Resonance Imaging unit in north‑west Tasmania — redirection of funding
Medicare Benefits Schedule — a quality framework for reviewing services
Medicare Benefits Schedule — access to positron emission tomography services provided at Westmead and Royal North Shore Hospitals and Austin Health Services
Medicare Benefits Schedule — Better Access Initiative — continuing professional development
Medicare Benefits Schedule — Better Access Initiative — improved targeting for the most in need and better quality of services
Medicare Benefits Schedule — capping Extended Medicare Safety Net benefits for items with excessive fees
Medicare Benefits Schedule — capping Extended Medicare Safety Net benefits for items with excessive fees — obstetrics services
Medicare Benefits Schedule — diagnostic imaging and pathology services — bulk‑billing incentives and rationalisation of patient episode initiation fees
Medicare Benefits Schedule — diagnostic imaging and pathology services — changes to fees for fully depreciated diagnostic imaging equipment
Medicare Benefits Schedule — diagnostic imaging and pathology services — improving competition
Medicare Benefits Schedule — diagnostic imaging and pathology services — improving the quality of services and addressing workforce shortages
Medicare Benefits Schedule — diagnostic imaging and pathology services — rebalancing of pathology fees
Medicare Benefits Schedule — diagnostic imaging and pathology services — reviews of pathology and diagnostic imaging items
Medicare Benefits Schedule — ensuring the appropriate use of clinical procedures and adjusting to modern technologies
Medicare Benefits Schedule — new and revised listings
Medicare Benefits Schedule — nurse practitioner workforce — expansion
Medicare Benefits Schedule — reversal of proposal to fund magnetic resonance imaging scans of the knee or brain — further efficiency
Mental health — continuation of existing services in rural and remote areas
Mental health— continuation of Mental Health Support for Drought‑Affected Communities program
National Illicit Drug Strategy — a more strategic approach
National Joint Replacement Registry — cost recovery
National Palliative Care Strategy — continuation of funding
National Partnership Agreement — Queensland compensation for health care treatment provided to Papua New Guinean nationals
National Return and Disposal of Unwanted Medicines program — additional funding
National Serology Reference Laboratory — additional funding for regulatory operations
Northern Territory Medical School
Nursing education and recruitment — further efficiency
Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme — chemotherapy drugs — delayed implementation of more efficient arrangements
Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme — enhancements to the National Prescribing Service
Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme — extending the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme reference pricing policies to all non‑exempt pharmaceutical items
Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme — extending the therapeutic group premium policy
Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme — extension to the listing of Plavix and Iscover (clopidogrel)
Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme — increased uptake of Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme online
Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme — Interim increase in the handling fee under the section 100 Remote Aboriginal Health Service Program
Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme — listing of Avastin (bevacizumab)
Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme — listing of Sutent (sunitinib)
Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme — minor new listings
Practice incentive payments — quality and administrative improvements — further efficiency
Prevocational training for doctors in general practice
Primary care — Sharing Health Care Initiative — further efficiency
Priority Health and Medical Research program — further efficiency
Private health insurance — fair and sustainable support for the future
Private health insurance — transparent premium setting
Prudential regulation of aged care providers — not to proceed with cost recovery
Public Health Education and Research Program — discontinuation
Radiation oncology — national radiotherapy single machine trial — discontinuation
Reduction of the business management training initiative — further efficiency
Regulation of research involving human embryos and the prohibition of human cloning — continuation of funding
Review of the National Blood Arrangements
Rural Health Workforce — maintaining rural multidisciplinary training
Rural Health Workforce Strategy
Secure and sustainable pensions — residential aged care
Shared Responsibility and Regional Partnership Agreements — further efficiency
Sporting facilities in Mackay — contribution
Stoma Appliance Scheme — implementing a new program framework
Support for diabetes — remove duplication in research effort
Support for Specialists to Re‑Enter the Workforce — cessation
Surf Life Saving Australia — contribution to upgrade information and technology systems
Torres Strait health protection strategy
Victorian bushfire response — Commonwealth assistance to health services
Woomera Hospital — continued funding
Workforce program — realising efficiency savings from consolidation
World Class Cancer Care — Building Cancer Support Networks program — continued funding
World Class Cancer Care — cancer data to improve cancer survival
World Class Cancer Care — Mentoring for Regional Hospitals and Cancer Professionals program — continued funding

Human Services

Centrelink — appropriation arrangements
Centrelink — call centre supplementation
Centrelink — maintenance of online service infrastructure
Child Support Agency — additional funding
Child Support Agency — income reconciliation
Drought assistance — continuation of rural support services
Fraud and compliance — Centrelink debts — increase in repayment rate
Fraud and compliance — establishing a data mining capability in Centrelink
Fraud and compliance — extend United Kingdom data exchange
Fraud and compliance — extending real estate asset reviews to Disability Support Pension
Fraud and compliance — increased Centrelink compliance review activity
Fraud and compliance — matching of Medicare Benefits Schedule and Pharmaceutical Benefits Schedule data
Medicare Australia — additional offices
Service delivery reform — further development of initiatives

Immigration and Citizenship

Border protection — combating people smuggling — engagement with Indonesia
Border protection — combating people smuggling — initiative to address irregular population flows
Border Protection — combating people smuggling — package to mitigate threats, gaps and vulnerabilities — continuation
Child Migrants Trust — continuation
Citizenship Support Grants Program — cessation of funding
Department of Immigration and Citizenship — efficiency improvements
Humanitarian Migration Program — non‑refoulement obligations
Improving English language learning outcomes for newly arrived migrants
Migration Agents Registration Authority — operational reforms
Migration Program — reduction in skill stream places for 2008‑09
Migration Program — allocation of places for 2009‑10
National Accreditation Authority for Translators and Interpreters Limited — additional funding
New directions in immigration detention
Protection Visas — abolition of the 45 Day Rule
Providing for Australia's security — regional counter‑terrorism assistance — continuation
Retirement Visa (Subclass 410) enhancements
Sale of underutilised land
Systems for People — operational costs
Temporary Business (Long Stay) Visa (Subclass 457) reform — implementation
Visa places for Iraqi locally engaged employees — extension of funding
Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government
Civil Aviation Safety Authority — governance
Establishment of Regional Development Australia
Local government payments — accelerating payments
Murray River Bridges Federation Fund project — delayed pending confirmation of route
Nation Building Plan for the Future — Bruce Highway duplication and bring forward of funding
Nation Building Plan for the Future — Building Australia Fund — investing in metro rail
Nation Building Plan for the Future — Building Australia Fund — investing in Network 1
Nation Building Plan for the Future — Investing in public transport links for our major cities
National Road Safety Council — contribution
Remote Aviation Infrastructure Fund — upgrade of airstrips

Innovation, Industry, Science and Research

An Innovation and Higher Education System for the 21st Century — Anglo‑Australian Observatory — new governance arrangements
An Innovation and Higher Education System for the 21st Century — Anglo‑Australian Observatory — offsetting savings
An Innovation and Higher Education System for the 21st Century — Australian Space Science Program
An Innovation and Higher Education System for the 21st Century — Collaborative Research Networks program
An Innovation and Higher Education System for the 21st Century — Commonwealth Commercialisation Institute — establishment
An Innovation and Higher Education System for the 21st Century — Education Investment Fund — Super Science — strengthening Australia's research infrastructure
An Innovation and Higher Education System for the 21st Century — European Molecular Biology Laboratory partner facility
An Innovation and Higher Education System for the 21st Century — Excellence in Research for Australia
An Innovation and Higher Education System for the 21st Century — Joint Research Engagement program
An Innovation and Higher Education System for the 21st Century — maintaining Australia's Marine National Facility
An Innovation and Higher Education System for the 21st Century — National Enabling Technologies Strategy
An Innovation and Higher Education System for the 21st Century — postgraduate research — student support
An Innovation and Higher Education System for the 21st Century — Questacon — continuation of the national science outreach program
An Innovation and Higher Education System for the 21st Century — Research and Development Tax Credit
An Innovation and Higher Education System for the 21st Century — Super Science Fellowships program
An Innovation and Higher Education System for the 21st Century — Support for Industry Service Organisations program
An Innovation and Higher Education System for the 21st Century — Sustainable Research Excellence in Universities
Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation — additional funding of operational activities
Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre — extension
Consolidation of National Measurement Institute and Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Sydney accommodation
Development of innovative health technologies — bionic eye
International Science Linkages program — discontinuing 2009 funding round
Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG) Vehicle Scheme — reduced rebate for post‑factory conversions
Questacon — maintenance of the National Science and Technology Centre
Royal Institution of Australia — establishment
Small Business Online Program
Small Business Support Line — establishment
Textiles, clothing and footwear — Clothing and Household Textile Building Innovative Capability Program — additional funding
Textiles, clothing and footwear — competitive grants to build innovative capability — establishment
Textiles, clothing and footwear — Product Diversification Scheme — redirect funds to build innovative capability
Textiles, clothing and footwear — Supply Chain Opportunities — redirect funds to build innovative capability

Prime Minister and Cabinet

Australian National Audit Office — enhanced professional capability
Border protection — combating people smuggling — Australian Government management of border security and maritime people smuggling
Community Cabinet — enhancement
Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet — additional funding
National Australia Day activities
National Mental Health and Disability Employment Strategy — strategy support
National Security Adviser Group — establishment
National Security Legislation Monitor — establishment
Office of National Assessments — new accommodation
Office of the Information Commissioner — establishment
Prime Minister and Cabinet portfolio — further efficiencies

Resources, Energy and Tourism

Clean Energy Initiative
Department of Resources, Energy and Tourism — supplementary departmental funding
Enhancing Australia's energy security
National Mine Safety Framework — implementation
Rum Jungle mine site — environmental rehabilitation

Treasury

Australian Bureau of Statistics — Census field staff funding
Australian Bureau of Statistics — statistical capacity
Australian Office of Financial Management — additional funding
Australian Prudential Regulation Authority — continuation of the National Claims and Policies Database
Australian Securities and Investments Commission — enhanced monitoring and enforcement capabilities
Council of Australian Governments' decision — Australian Competition and Consumer Commission — implementing a system of national product safety regulation
Council of Australian Governments' decision — Commonwealth investment in closing Indigenous data gaps
Council of Australian Governments' decision — implementing the Council of Australian Governments' federal financial framework — expanded roles
Education Tax Refund — public awareness campaign
Federal finances — additional decisions — reward payment for improved Year 12 attainment levels
Federal finances — rationalising payments — film and literature classification
Federal finances — rationalising payments — GST compensation
Federal finances — rationalising payments — organ transplantation services
Federal finances — rationalising payments — repatriation general hospitals
Federal finances — rationalising payments — Snowy Hydro Ltd tax compensation
Federal finances — rationalising payments — social housing subsidy program
Federal finances — rationalising payments — state cellar door subsidy savings
First Home Owners Boost — extension
Global recession — additional funding
Grocery mandatory unit pricing
Nation Building and Jobs Plan — Tax Bonus for Working Australians — reduction
Secure and sustainable pensions — Pensioner and Beneficiary Living Cost Index
Strategic compliance — continuing to address the abuse of tax havens
Strategic compliance — managing taxation compliance risks related to Australia's economic recovery
Strategic compliance — promoting a level playing field for small business
Strategic compliance — supporting businesses and other taxpayers in financial distress
Streamlining tax law design — response to the Tax Design Review Panel report
Superannuation — contributing to sustainable retirement income reform by temporarily reducing the Government co‑contribution
Wheat export marketing — access arrangements

Veterans' Affairs

Clarke Review — review of unimplemented recommendations
Commemorations — Western Front ANZAC Trail
Defence Services Home Insurance Scheme — extension of eligibility
Department of Veterans' Affairs — additional departmental funding
Dependant Pension — lump‑sum payment and closure
HomeFront, Rehabilitation Appliance program and Veterans' Home Care assessments
Improved payment arrangements for veterans residing overseas
Military compensation — review of current arrangements
Suicide prevention — response to the Independent Study into Suicide in the Ex‑service Community
War‑caused disabilities — review of pharmaceutical costs

Part 3: Capital Measures

Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry

Australian Fisheries Management Authority — boat destruction facilities — reduction in funding

Attorney-General's

Australian Federal Police — internally funded capital program

Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy

National Broadband Network — initial investment
National Broadband Network — regional backbone blackspots program

Climate Change

Department of Climate Change — accommodation fit-out
Department of Climate Change — information technology network

Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts

National Gallery of Australia building refurbishment and enhancement project — additional funding
Water for the Future — accelerated water buy-backs for the Murray-Darling Basin

Foreign Affairs and Trade

Bangkok — new Chancery construction
Jakarta — new Chancery construction

Immigration and Citizenship

Villawood Immigration Detention Centre — redevelopment
Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government
Nation Building Plan for the Future — Building Australia Fund — Investing in port and rail projects

Innovation, Industry, Science and Research

Innovation Investment Follow-on Fund

Treasury

Global Recession — increased capital for the Asian Development Bank

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